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Table oddities
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- III leading \n, break\n as item separator
- IV break \n as item separator
- V \n after each item
- VI leading \n, \n as item terminator
- VII leading \n, \n\n as item terminator
- VIII leading \n, break\n\n as item terminator
Cheshunt Lock and other notes
[edit]- Another Gorka source
- http://www.leeandstort.co.uk/Cheshunt_Lock.htm
- Dictionary of Kongo
- Faith hope and charity
- Colour list
- Queen's Hospital, Croydon see Fay Allen , Queen's Hospital (disambiguation)
- Chirurgeon
- Arnold Birkman ditto, insignia foxes shaking hands, ditto (heirs of, 1555, dubious) Also Collen = Cologne (Koln). booke-for-all-the-grefes-and-diseases-of-the-bodye/oclc/14317345 qv, ,
- COvid vit D (dubious?)
- RAC cites Pettigrew.
- Regulation, rent-seeking, and the Glorious Revolution in the English Atlantic economy
- A Glossary of Dialect & Archaic Words Used in the County of Gloucester (iss 1-3?) Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, Demy-Octavo (corrigenda P 214): bound in with Rutland Words 1891 Kegan Paul, Trubner & Co (Paternoster House, Charing Cross)
- Odiham Hundred
- County Magazine re twelfth cake, and Pompeii/Hereculaneum?
- Oppression in 19th century Britain
- Winter 1966]
- 420
- Coastal eutrophication & plastic density
- NHS funding
- Bennet and Kerr books
- Dr Johnsons's Dictionary
- Captivity of Mrs Rowlandson
- Sari Bear see also A Duty Clear Before Us : North Beach and the Sari Bair Range, Gallipoli Peninsula 25 April-20 December 1999., ,
- Cat and Bagpipean soc. see also Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue infra, See also: A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries
- Study of circs of TMWWBQ
- Catamaran
- F. Grose Classical Dic., catamaran, chuffy
- Ubuntu bash multi-terminal history
- Author's alliance fair use guidance
- Language speeds (sieve)
- Pesticide Properties Data Base (Glyphosate)
- Mandy Rice-Davies Seven Magnificent Gladiators
- Warlike Operations Area Committee
- Laser Activated Remote Phosphor (LARP)
- PASC
- There seems to be confusion between Spiraea arguta and Spiraea prunifolia, only the former I think is correctly dubbed "bridal wreath".
- Meadowsweet <- Meadow sweet Meadow-sweet
- Find out whether dry-point [A Catalogue of Manuscripts Known to Contain Old English Dry-Point Glosses] (de: Griffelglossen) includes/is metalpoint. DNC drypoint. Ans. Blackwell Ency.c Ag-Sax England, entry Glosses cited therein - 'with a stylus' 'scratched'
- Investigate Bald's Leechbook and Lacnunga.
- Wynde Monah 1845 see alsoBailey
- John Eversely https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/58673/supplement/4/data.pdf https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/the-princess-royal-shakes-hands-with-mr-john-eversley-news-photo/834710966 https://bdaily.co.uk/articles/2008/04/23/enterprising-individuals-get-queens-award https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/business/2211450.best-uk-business-recognised-awards/ https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Award+recognises+John%27s+contribution%3B+in+association+with+RBS.-a0178074996
- https://www.europeana.eu/en
- Broken symmetry https://www.acsh.org/news/2022/04/13/clinical-trial-should-probably-wont-close-book-ivermectin-16244
- Sort order, name https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sarah_Ann_Brock_Putnam&diff=prev&oldid=880695609
- Barret M82 an 11/12 round mag was made need a better ref if possible. perhaps or
- Hilary English
- https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-sanctions-family-syria-asma-assad-end-war
- probably WISEA J100115.86+555344.3 move to WISEA 1001+5553 (needs refs)
- 'Top 400' political scientists (US, Phd granting institutions only, tenure or tenure track, by citation count)
- Tha Si Sunthon Heroines Monument
- Isaac Wayne For his grandfather...
- St Mary Magdalene's, Longfield lnk Thomas Plume (Also spellings of Longflield.)
- Ejidal -> Ejido
2025
[edit]- Seacoal Sea coal
- PPLAAF
- Shooting Butts School
- Cassells Paten Pangram (Connoisseur Magazine vol 57)
- COMB breach
Things to unarchive
[edit]- Space discussion.
- Engvar discussion
Tech News: 2026-44
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- An experiment launched on September 29 is testing article recommendations for new account holders who also identify as readers. By suggesting articles to read, similar to recommendations in the Wikipedia app for logged-in readers, the experiment aims to encourage new account holders to read and return to the website regularly, with the goal of increasing internal referrals by 1%. See the related Community Wishlist proposal.
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- Last week we shared that to measure the impact of incorporating some community-requested features on logged-out reader retention, a test for the Image Carousel feature would be pushed to logged-out readers. Due to an issue, we will be restarting the test, but it will be live on October 26, not November 20 as initially announced.
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Mass edit restrictions
[edit]Hello Rich. I have a few things to ask.
- Where is the consensus for the series of edits you made on 25 October pertaining to French mayors?
- Did you realize that multiple of these changes made the cosmetic change of changing
–to its Unicode representation? E.g.
You have two outstanding restrictions pertaining to both items. Izno (talk) 03:02, 28 October 2026 (UTC)
- I have written a small tool to update these, and done a quick test which is now complete. I am debating whether to offer the tool to those involved in Infobox commune or start an RFC in November. Both have downsides and upsides.
- I think you are misinterpreting COSMETIC. Replacing one date range with another is an edit which changes the article visibly and substantially.
- Hope that makes sense I saw your notification in the middle of the night.
- All the best: Rich Farmbrough 06:21, 28 October 2026 (UTC).
Nomination of Subsidiaries and affiliates of TotalEnergies for deletion
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The Signpost: 1 November 2026
[edit]- News and notes: AELECT5 concludes, a Wikimedian arrested for treason, and updates to GANs and FARs
Nine new admins, three arrests, and a lot of GAN RFCs.
- Recent research: How Wikipedians use (or don't use) LLMs; experienced editors contribute more to "underproduced" articles than newbies
And other new research findings.
- Disinformation report: Better bots or bothersome baby borgs?
Have the Borg landed on Wikipedia?
- In the media: Stop the internet, I was deleted
Can toeing the line stop the apocalypse?
- News from Diff: Why Wikimedia Is Speaking Up in a Major AI Copyright Case
When AI companies use copyrighted information, does it qualify as fair use?
- By the numbers: Wikipedian Nobel Prize 2026
Which language versions of Wikipedia had biographies of laureates before Nobel announcements?
- On the bright side: Gone fishing
Touring Thailand, exploring iridescence, and translating prairie dog.
- Traffic report: October, and the articles are stripped bare
Lots of deaths, Indian movies, and monsters. Happy Halloween!
- In focus: Two Roles, One Wikimedia Education Ecosystem
What happens when different approaches to Wikimedia education connect?
- Comix: Inactivity
Zounds!
Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - October 2026 Newsletter
[edit]This is our sixtieth newsletter. This issue has news related to SDG 3, 5, 9, 10, 13, 15 and 17.
- News
- World Malaria Day 2026: Promoting Public Health on Malaria on Wikipedia and Wikidata (SDG 3)
- How Wiki Loves Earth’s images expressed love in 2026 (SDG 15)
- Climate Change and Free Knowledge: Workshops for Editing Urgent Issues (SDG 13)
- From India to Uzbekistan: How Butterflies Brought Wikipedians Together (SDG 15)
- My WikiGap 2026 Journey in Uganda: Amplifying women’s stories through Wikimedia (SDG 5)
- Contributing plant-related knowledge to the Wikiverse - How and why to collaborate (SDG 15)
- Events
- Upcoming
- 11 November: 24hr editathon for COP31 (SDG 13)
- On-going:
- Maritime Silk Road Edit a Thon (SDG 17)
- Past:
- Writing Wikipedia in ASL (SDG 10)
- Query Service Days 2026 (SDG 9)
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The London Gazette on Wikidata
[edit]I have just(!) discovered that someone has created a Wikidata item for each issue, up to and including The London Gazette 63508 (Q109232185) (published 25 October 2021). Nothing for Belfast or Edinburgh editions. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits; 13:01, 2 November 2026 (UTC)
- Interesting! All the best: Rich Farmbrough 14:40, 2 November 2026 (UTC).
Wikidata weekly summary #756
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-11-02. Missed the previous one? See issue #755.
week leading up to 2026-11-02. Missed the previous one? See issue #755.
Discussions
- Closed request for adminship: Horcrux - Closed as successful
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- CampaignCommsBot - Task/s: Add missing factual, sourced statements (identifiers, official website, party, candidacy, offices held, verified social accounts, freely licensed image) to existing items about US political candidates who use CampaignComms. Paid editing disclosed below.
- Karlb42Bot - Task/s: Create a first sense with item for this sense (P5137) on lexemes that have no senses, when the item's label or alias in the lexeme's language equals the lemma.
- PeneBot 1 - Task/s: Add ِPersian Wikipedia sitelinks to existing Wikidata items for French communes
- AcervoFilmicoBot - Task/s: Create items for Mexican fiction television films (later also feature films), longer than 70 minutes, that have an IMDb ID but no Wikidata item.
Events
- Upcoming events:
- Mezi bajty 1 - meetup of the Czech Wikidata community in Prague and online, 11th November 17:00 - 19:00 CET (in Czech, Slovak, English)
- Hands-on workshop: Wikidata: An Open Knowledge Graph for Research and Beyond for students and researchers. 19 November 14:15 - 15:45 CET at the DH Lab, Philturm (C2003), University of Hamburg.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs:
- The intersection of OpenStreetMap and Wikidata by rtnF
- (Deutsch) Wikidata turns 14 and creates new ways for free knowledge
- My Two Favorite Holidays Collided: Halloween + Wikidata Day - The Stark Report and organising birthday celebrations at Wikidata NYC Day.
- Videos:
- Query Service Days 2026 (Playlist) - catch up on any missed sessions
- Wikidata. Wiki, data, or neither? by Marcin Cieślak, drawing on five years worth of observations of the Ionian Wikithon and LOD research to invite attendees to build a shared stance on teaching open data's value.
- Vandalism Detection Systems for Wikipedia and Wikidata by Mykola Trokhymovych. Presents two projects designed to aid patrolling and vandalism detection including Graph2Text designed for Wikidata.
- Epistemic Practices Behind Wikidata’s Ontology Evolution with Marcin Roszkowski. Wikidata's Ontology can and does change, who shapes and makes those decisions? This talk explores that.
- Data, Science, and Technology Talk Show 2026: Data Reuse: (AI) reusing Wikidata’s data - (this session is in English but has a Bahasa Indoesian introduction) Alan Ang (WMDE) discusses how Wikidata is being reused in the development of AI.
- Repertory of Colonial Plunder from the WiNoDa Knowledge Lab. Explores issues that arise from encoding looted cultural heritage items on digital data platforms, with three exemplary cases.
- RDA Wikibase Cloud Sandbox Demonstration 2: Creating "Stub" WEMI Entities with Access Points - create initial linked data entities for a work, expression, manifestation, and item associated with a single-part manifestation.
- RDA Wikibase Cloud Sandbox Demonstration 3: Describing Manifestations Pt. I - describe a single-part manifestation.
- Presentations: Query Service Days 2026 - slides for all presentations are on Commons
Tool of the week
- wd-provenance : A tool that analyzes Wikidata item provenance, historical edits, deleted facts, and active contributor rankings by parsing its revision history.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- part of the observance of (holiday or observance during which this tradition is observed, this item is used, or this story or story element is commemorated)
- accumulated cyclone energy (sum of the squared maximum sustained winds at 6-hour intervals of a tropical cyclone, a tropical cyclone season, or a time period, where the winds at that particular point in time are at least gale-force)
- External identifiers: IBA cocktail ID, IT History Forum Data Archive ID, BGA numeric ID, BGA ID, Allotrope Foundation Ontology equipment ID
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- Politicômetro (politician identifier on the Politicômetro website)
- Derived from language (language from which a lexeme is directly derived, when the source lexeme is unknown or not yet available on Wikidata)
- Yaayuwee ethnobotanical use (category of traditional use of a plant taxon by the Yaayuwee people of Garoua-Boulaï, Cameroon {{!}} fr=catégorie d'usage traditionnel d'une plante par le peuple Yaayuwee de Garoua-Boulaï)
- reuses footage from (audiovisual work from which this work incorporates pre-existing moving-image footage)
- name on ballot (name used on the ballot for an election)
- External identifiers: VSCO username, Docker Hub namespace, il Palio.Siena.it Palio ID, il Palio.Siena.it jockey ID, il Palio.Siena.it person ID, ilpalio.org jockey ID, ilpalio.org Palio ID, State Catalogue of Geographical Names (Belarus) ID, VLKK given name ID, Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames ID, Austriasoccer.at football players ID, HKeL ID, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile Library authority ID, Sraidainm ID, RNAL registration number, KEIBA.GO.JP horse ID, 2Day Chrono-Wiki ID
- General datatypes:
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Newest WikiProjects:
- WikiProject Highlights: Project Epigraphy - new data model, workshop and taster session.
Development
- REST API:
- We added the ability to add Forms and Senses to a Lexeme when creating a Lexeme
- We are working on modifying an existing Lexeme
- hCaptcha: We are continuing to adapt the UI and APis for the upcoming rollout of hCaptcha
- Wikidata integration in the Wikimedia projects: We are doing usability tests for a new filter option for Recent changes and Watchlist to filter out changes to sitelinks
- Mobile UI: We are addressing small issues that came up after the rollout for everyone
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
Weekly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Govdirectory weekly focus country:
- Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Tech News: 2026-45
[edit]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
- Many Wikimedia tools were taken offline last week because of a security vulnerability in PHP. This affected many websites worldwide. Toolforge and Cloud VPS have been back up since October 22. Many important tools have been gradually restored. Some tools need the respective volunteer maintainers to restart them. Others still need to upgrade to a patched PHP version. Some tools were using older versions of PHP which are not supported by the recent security patches. They will require maintainers to upgrade to a more recent version. This might require additional effort. You can follow the work on Wikitech.
Updates for editors
- A new optional search experiment is running in the Wikipedia Android and iOS apps for Arabic, French, and Japanese Wikipedias. Participating readers can search inside articles and open quoted passages directly in their source articles, no answers or summaries are generated. This is the first of four experiments in Phase 2 of Semantic Search. It began on October 22 and runs for 20 days. Feedback is welcome on the project’s discussion page.
- The Future Audiences team is planning to bring Share Cards to Wikipedia on mobile. This feature gives users the option to share a visually appealing card with friends, based on the article they are reading. The card contains the article’s title, image, opening text, and related attribution, and links back to the article for full reading. Editors are invited to try out this feature by adding
?useformat=mobile&sharecard=1to any article URL from October 29 to November 8. Share any thoughts on the project talk page and report any bugs on Phabricator. - The default renderer for math formulas will change on November 2. After the change, the server sends the formula as MathML, and your browser uses MathJax to show it. This is the last step towards the Mathoid/RESTBase deprecation process, for sustainability and security reasons. You can ask questions or report problems.
- Do you have an idea for a new feature, or a bug that needs fixing? Submit your suggestion for the community wish list by November 8!
- View all 41 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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November 2026
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Hello, I'm UtherSRG. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Spider, but you didn't provide a reliable source. On Wikipedia, it's important that article content be verifiable. If you'd like to resubmit your change with a citation, your edit is archived in the page history. If you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Dude.... - In solidarity, UtherSRG (talk) 20:56, 5 November 2026 (UTC)
